Walter Rocchia

4.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
90 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Walter Rocchia is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Walter Rocchia has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Molecular Biology, 19 papers in Materials Chemistry and 15 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Walter Rocchia's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (35 papers), Computational Drug Discovery Methods (14 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (11 papers). Walter Rocchia is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (35 papers), Computational Drug Discovery Methods (14 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (11 papers). Walter Rocchia collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and United Kingdom. Walter Rocchia's co-authors include Emil Alexov, Barry Honig, Sergio Decherchi, Andrea Cavalli, A. Chiabrera, Anthony Nicholls, Giovanni Bottegoni, Matteo Masetti, Anna Berteotti and Andrea Spitaleri and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Walter Rocchia

85 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Extending the Applicability of the Nonlinear Poisson−Boltzmann Equation: Multiple Dielectric Constants and Multivalent Ions

2001 717 citations Walter Rocchia, Emil Alexov et al. profile →
Rapid grid‐based construction of the molecular surface and the use of induced surface charge to calculate reaction field energies: Applications to the molecular systems and geometric objects

2001 585 citations Walter Rocchia, Emil Alexov et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Walter Rocchia Italy	28	2.4k	701	672	542	395	90	3.7k
Michel A. Cuendet Switzerland	22	2.1k 0.9×	639 0.9×	490 0.7×	315 0.6×	383 1.0×	54	4.0k
Mai Suan Li Poland	39	2.9k 1.2×	744 1.1×	853 1.3×	270 0.5×	717 1.8×	229	5.0k
Jérôme Baudry United States	32	2.1k 0.9×	551 0.8×	628 0.9×	225 0.4×	642 1.6×	82	4.0k
Grzegorz Nawrocki United States	13	3.7k 1.5×	456 0.7×	779 1.2×	291 0.5×	384 1.0×	17	5.1k
Shibasish Chowdhury India	16	3.3k 1.3×	405 0.6×	987 1.5×	255 0.5×	507 1.3×	41	4.6k
Rossen Apostolov Sweden	6	3.5k 1.4×	531 0.8×	1.1k 1.6×	591 1.1×	754 1.9×	7	6.1k
Justin A. Lemkul United States	30	4.3k 1.8×	748 1.1×	723 1.1×	419 0.8×	832 2.1×	76	6.4k
Romelia Salomón–Ferrer United States	11	3.7k 1.5×	690 1.0×	900 1.3×	216 0.4×	576 1.5×	17	5.3k
Sarah Rauscher Canada	14	4.3k 1.8×	492 0.7×	941 1.4×	340 0.6×	415 1.1×	32	5.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Walter Rocchia

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Walter Rocchia

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Soler, Miguel A., et al.. (2025). Bluues_cplx: Electrostatics at Protein–Protein and Protein–Ligand Interfaces. Molecules. 30(1). 159–159.

Douaki, Ali, Julian Hengsteler, Dmitry Momotenko, et al.. (2023). Theoretical analysis of divalent cation effects on aptamer recognition of neurotransmitter targets. Chemical Communications. 59(99). 14713–14716. 11 indexed citations

Soler, Miguel A., Nikola Minovski, Walter Rocchia, & Sara Fortuna. (2023). Replica-exchange optimization of antibody fragments. Computational Biology and Chemistry. 103. 107819–107819. 2 indexed citations

Biasotti, Silvia, Walter Rocchia, Hao Huang, et al.. (2022). SHREC 2022: Protein–ligand binding site recognition. Computers & Graphics. 107. 20–31. 12 indexed citations

Manerba, Marcella, Roberto Marotta, Arianna Gennari, et al.. (2022). The Mechanistic Understanding of RAD51 Defibrillation: A Critical Step in BRCA2-Mediated DNA Repair by Homologous Recombination. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(15). 8338–8338. 7 indexed citations

Douaki, Ali, Denis Garoli, Martina Aurora Costa Angeli, et al.. (2022). Smart Approach for the Design of Highly Selective Aptamer-Based Biosensors. Biosensors. 12(8). 574–574. 27 indexed citations

Reis, Pedro B. P. S., et al.. (2022). Antibody-Antigen Binding Interface Analysis in the Big Data Era. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 9. 945808–945808. 26 indexed citations

Cristo, Luisana Di, Agnes G. Oomen, Susan Dekkers, et al.. (2021). Grouping Hypotheses and an Integrated Approach to Testing and Assessment of Nanomaterials Following Oral Ingestion. Nanomaterials. 11(10). 2623–2623. 26 indexed citations

Riccardi, Laura, Sergio Decherchi, Walter Rocchia, et al.. (2021). Molecular Recognition by Gold Nanoparticle-Based Receptors as Defined through Surface Morphology and Pockets Fingerprint. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 12(23). 5616–5622. 9 indexed citations

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Soler, Miguel A., et al.. (2021). Enhanced Molecular Dynamics Method to Efficiently Increase the Discrimination Capability of Computational Protein–Protein Docking. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 17(11). 7271–7280. 8 indexed citations

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Decherchi, Sergio, Giovanni Bottegoni, Andrea Spitaleri, Walter Rocchia, & Andrea Cavalli. (2018). BiKi Life Sciences: A New Suite for Molecular Dynamics and Related Methods in Drug Discovery. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 58(2). 219–224. 46 indexed citations

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Spiliotopoulos, Dimitrios, Panagiotis L. Kastritis, Adrien S. J. Melquiond, et al.. (2016). dMM-PBSA: A New HADDOCK Scoring Function for Protein-Peptide Docking. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 3. 46–46. 65 indexed citations

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Goldoni, Luca, Tiziana Beringhelli, Walter Rocchia, Natalia Realini, & Daniele Piomelli. (2016). Absolute nutrient concentration measurements in cell culture media: 1H q-NMR spectra and data to compare the efficiency of pH-controlled protein precipitation versus CPMG or post-processing filtering approaches. Data in Brief. 8. 387–393. 2 indexed citations

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Goldoni, Luca, Tiziana Beringhelli, Walter Rocchia, Natalia Realini, & Daniele Piomelli. (2016). A simple and accurate protocol for absolute polar metabolite quantification in cell cultures using quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance. Analytical Biochemistry. 501. 26–34. 11 indexed citations

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Decherchi, Sergio, et al.. (2014). Implicit solvent methods for free energy estimation. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 91. 27–42. 47 indexed citations

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Wang, Lin, Zhe Zhang, Walter Rocchia, & Emil Alexov. (2013). Using DelPhi Capabilities to Mimic Protein’s Conformational Reorganization with Amino Acid Specific Dielectric Constants. Communications in Computational Physics. 13(1). 13–30. 21 indexed citations

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Witham, Shawn, et al.. (2013). DelPhi Web Server: A Comprehensive Online Suite for Electrostatic Calculations of Biological Macromolecules and Their Complexes. Communications in Computational Physics. 13(1). 269–284. 46 indexed citations

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Witham, Shawn, et al.. (2011). DelPhi webserver: Comprehensive suite for electrostatic calculations of biological macromolecules and their complexes. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2011. 1 indexed citations

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Bottegoni, Giovanni, Walter Rocchia, & Andrea Cavalli. (2011). Application of Conformational Clustering in Protein–Ligand Docking. Methods in molecular biology. 819. 169–186. 7 indexed citations

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Pioggia, Giovanni, et al.. (2004). FACE: facial automaton for conveying emotions. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9 indexed citations

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